{"id":1780778,"date":"2022-12-19T20:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T01:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780778"},"modified":"2022-12-19T20:03:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T01:03:47","slug":"monty-python-alum-john-cleese-slams-wokes-and-the-current-thrill-of-being-offended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/monty-python-alum-john-cleese-slams-wokes-and-the-current-thrill-of-being-offended\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Monty Python\u2019 Alum John Cleese Slams \u2018Wokes\u2019 And The Current \u2018Thrill Of Being Offended\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmonty-python-alum-john-cleese-slams-wokes-and-the-current-thrill-of-being-offended%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780778&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cMonty Python\u201d alumni John Cleese slammed those he called the \u201cwokes\u201d and talked about the current environment for entertainers with many people sitting in the audience just waiting for the \u201cthrill of being offended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a wide-ranging interview for Reason.com\u2019s January 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/12\/18\/john-cleese-on-how-wokeness-smothers-creativity\/?fbclid=IwAR0d9PL2VsNu_nW7lmMZG99KEjJ-cAnxdWEOeF1KQci9bD5AB-n3EjFh5QQ\">issue<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/john-cleese\">83-year-old<\/a> comedian talked about political correctness and \u201cwokeism\u201d which he called the enemies of creativity and humor.\u00a0The \u201cFawlty Towers\u201d star said that \u201cwokeism\u201d is \u201cthe internal interruption\u201d of the creative process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think of an idea and you immediately think: \u2018Oooh, is that going to get me into trouble? Well, that person last Thursday got away with it,&#8217;\u201d Cleese shared. \u201cBut all that stuff immediately stops you being creative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe woke people, I think, miss something quite badly,\u201d he added. \u201cThe meaning of a word depends on its context. If I use sarcasm, then what I\u2019m meaning is the opposite of the words I\u2019m actually saying. If you don\u2019t get irony, then if you take it seriously, you completely misunderstand the intention of the writer or speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Monty Python legend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCleese?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnCleese<\/a> on giving offense and getting laughs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g6ukBw4Yg7\">https:\/\/t.co\/g6ukBw4Yg7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 reason (@reason) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reason\/status\/1604432054317641728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people sitting there who are deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended,\u201d Cleese continued.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cA Fish Called Wanda\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/monty-python-alum-has-had-it-with-wokeism-the-death-of-creativity\">star<\/a>\u00a0also said he realized decades ago the importance of laughter in helping us heal with the struggles and hardships of our own lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes us to a part of our mind where we\u2019re probably healthier than we are at any other time, and it\u2019s this thing about laughing at yourself,\u201d the actor shared. \u201cI\u2019m not so sure that the wokes would ever laugh at themselves, no matter how hilarious they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The famed British comedian has been very outspoken in the past about cancel culture and even announced plans to host a new unnamed show on GB news that he said will tackle it, labeling the \u201cwokes\u201d the new \u201cauthoritarians,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/beware-the-wokes-monty-python-alum-defends-new-show-tackling-cancel-culture-and-new-authoritarians\">previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike all people who believe that are purer than they actually are, they are authoritarians,\u201d Cleese previously <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCleese\/status\/1579397566655262720?s=20&#038;t=uUR-qN7yGJAx40uWiVuwFA\">tweeted<\/a> about his new show. \u201cWhich is why all the best comedians make fun of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comedian will work with political satirist and comedian Andrew Doyle on the show that will hit the air waves in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/global\/monty-python-john-cleese-gb-news-cancel-culture-1235397650\/\">Variety<\/a> noted. No title has yet to be released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/beware-the-wokes-monty-python-alum-defends-new-show-tackling-cancel-culture-and-new-authoritarians\">\u2018Beware The \u2018Wokes\u2019\u2019: \u2018Monty Python\u2019 Alum Defends New Show Tackling \u2018Cancel Culture\u2019 And New \u2018Authoritarians\u2019<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMonty Python\u201d alumni John Cleese slammed those he called the \u201cwokes\u201d and talked about the current environment for entertainers with many people sitting in the audience just waiting for the \u201cthrill of being offended.\u201d During a wide-ranging interview for Reason.com\u2019s January 2023 issue, the 83-year-old comedian talked about political correctness and \u201cwokeism\u201d which he called &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":998880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10444,10446,10443,10449,10447,7559,6202,4475,10448,10445,3944,6195],"class_list":["post-1780778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-monty","tag-thrill","tag-wokes","tag-alum","tag-cleese","tag-current","tag-daily","tag-john","tag-offended","tag-python","tag-slams","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/998880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}